Intercultural perspective about professors’ nonverbal behaviour: The voice of three groups of university students
Three groups of undergraduate students (N=25 from Canada; N=21 from Italy; N=13 international on an exchange in Italy) were invited to express their opinions on... Read More
“The thumbs-up looks insincere”: Cross-Cultural Perceptions of Multimodal Compliments with Gestures
Speech acts are one of the most basic analytical categories in pragmatics (Jucker 2023). This study examines the cross-cultural perceptions of compliments, focusing on the... Read More
Establishing common ground through trust-building in negotiations – A linguistic analysis of intercultural interactions in banking services
Trust is vitally important in both personal and business relationships. There should be trust in order to achieve successful cooperation between partners. However, the phenomenon... Read More
Intertextuality and the blogosphere: an analysis of forms and functions of intertextuality in the human rights blogs
This paper addresses the forms and functions of intertextuality in the academic blogs offering critical analyses of the European Court of Human Rights’ legal reasoning.... Read More
Environment and energy: a cross-cultural study
Company disclosure is critical both internally and externally, and will result in an opportunity or a threat, a positive or a negative response by the... Read More
The discursive mobilization of stereotypes in conversations about intercultural encounters in Greece
This study explores the discursive construction of ethnic, cultural, and national stereotypes by diasporic Greek return migrants in conversations about their experiences moving to Greece... Read More
One in one out! Social distance regulations communicated by Greek and British businesses.
The containment measures introduced during the Covid-19 pandemic have impacted on many aspects of people’s lives. Restrictions on face-to-face contacts have also led to new... Read More
Trusting transparency in cross-cultural pharmaceutical discourse
When it comes to people’s health, the notion of transparency (Hood, 2006) and its cross-cultural communicative implications may be crucial in the construction of discourse... Read More
The pragmatics of style: Translating for the multimodal art exhibition space
Museums and art galleries are not only spaces of awe and wonder. They are “contact zones” (Clifford, 1997) that have the potential to promote learning... Read More
Focusing on pragmatics as a way of fostering intercultural communicative competence in second language classrooms: A Danish case study
Despite the pivotal role that Intercultural Communicative Competence (ICC) (Byram, 1997, 2020) holds in theoretical discourse and policymaking, it frequently remains overlooked in second and... Read More